BE UPDATED

SCRIPTURE: “…Make sure they are well versed in every branch of learning, are gifted with knowledge and good judgment, and are suited to serve in the royal palace…” – Daniel 1:4b (NLT)
 
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Be addicted to excellence and allergic to mediocrity in order to escape being a monument.
 
Sometime ago, I travelled to my hometown and saw the storey building that was celebrated in 1975 as the best building in that community at that time. I was so amazed because the building has now become an eyesore. Imagine that! What was celebrated yesterday is being tolerated today. The truth is, if you do not want your life to be tolerated but celebrated, continuously update yourself. Be addicted to excellence and allergic to mediocrity in order to escape being a monument.
 
Someone once said, “The largest room in the world is the room for improvement”. If you do not update yourself, you will soon become outdated.  You must also refuse the life of comparison because when you compare yourself with mediocre persons, you may feel like a champion amongst them whereas you are still battling with how to become excellent. It is like a butterfly calling itself a bird in the company of flies.
 
At the end of our journey on earth, God is going to ask us how productive we were with the potentials He deposited in us. 
 
I prophesy on you the grace for personal update and improvement in Jesus’ Name. 
 
Remember this: Be addicted to excellence and allergic to mediocrity in order to escape being a monument.
 
ASSIGNMENT (S): 
1. Avoid a life of competition and comparison 
2. Continuously update yourself by reading, researching, etc.
 
FOR FURTHER UNDERSTANDING, GET THIS MESSAGE. WORKPLACE AND CAREER WISDOM (PART 3)
 
PRAYER: LORD, thank You for Your Word to me today. I refuse to live a tolerated, outdated and antiquated life. Grant me the grace O LORD, to update myself continuously in Jesus’ Name.
 
DAILY READING: Numbers 15:17 to 16:40, Mark 15:1 to 47, Psalm 54:1 to 7, Proverbs 11:5-6.
 
QUOTE: Excellence is our heritage. Mediocrity is a misrepresentation of Divine nature.
 
TODAY IN HISTORY: MARCH 11, 1913:
Frontier between Nigeria and Cameroon was agreed by Britain and Germany.
 
AMAZING FACT:
A leopard’s spots are not solid and are called rosettes because of the particular pattern they form.